Big Red Rage - Cardinals, Edmonds Chasing Victory

State Farm and buy Arizona Cardinals podcasts. Visit acy Cardinals dot com, Slash podcasts, The Rod sn Rising Guard, Temperatureizing Vision, Flurry Rage taking it over. Here's Paul KELVC. Get the popcorn ready. It's gonna be a show and Ron will fleep. It doesn't get any better than that. Hors unleash the fiar. You know, before anyone was watching football on Thursday nights, we were talking football on Thursday Nights. The original is the Big Red Rage. Ron Wolfley our Big Apple edition

of the Big Red Rage. And just to prove that no one has a clue as to what's next in twenty twenty, do you see where they've spotted whales swimming around the Statue of Liberty Whale watching is going on around the Statue of Liberty for the first time in many a year. Why do you think that is ball? Why do you think that is man? I mean, you gotta be kidding me. Look, everybody, there's a wow. Go out there and check out the humpback whales around the

Statue of Liberty. Never thought you'd do, I don't know, whale watching excursion right off there. You know you can board in the Hudson and then just cruise around and I mean wolf think about it. The Cardinals were five and two, now there's six and six. The Giants were oo and five. Now they're five and seven trying to become the first one and seven team ever to make

the playoffs. Wow. Think about the NFC least? Or is it because of what just happened this last weekend where Washington did what they handed the Steelers their very first loss. You had the Giants going into Seattle and holding and giving the Seahawks their first home loss of the season and confusing Russell Wilson. I defy anyone to predict what's next in two you know, honestly, Paulli. Right now you talk about the suddenly competitive nfcast, right and you start

with those defenses. For the most part, the Washington football team has got a scrappy defense, and so do the New York Giants five and seven right now. The Giants, of course top the NFC East via tiebreaker, and then the Washington football team at five and seven as well. Both those guys very very scrappy defenses. I'd also throw in the Eagles. That defense is much better than their record. Of course, the Cardinals still have the Eagles on the schedule.

Now it'll be Jail and Hurts at quarterback, at least it is this week. So yeah, everything keeps evolving. Do you catch what Cliff Kingsbury told us yesterday when we were filming his weekly TV show Game Plan, and when we asked him the move the pulse of the team this week, he used one word angry. He sensed an angry I was calling it the angry birds. Angry birds out there on the practice field this week. You know what.

I like that, because if you're going against this Giant's team, from all accounts, just listening to the analysts, they're gonna play hard. They're definitely not the most talented team, but you're gonna know you're in a football game against this Joe Judge team. Probably, I'm glad you said that because that is the honest to goodness truth. Right now, they line up and they try to hammer the ball. They run the ball very physically, They try to run the ball.

They care about running the ball. And of course their defense right now number four, number four, Paul, in terms of rushing yards per game allowed and rushing yards per play alone, they hold the line of scrimmage that they ball out. So they ran for one hundred and ninety yards in Seattle, and they're also stopping the run. Interesting how a turnaround starts with running the football and stopping

the run. For everything that's going on through the air in twenty twenty, and I know the future of football, it really does come down to the line of scrimmage and the ground game both ways. Does It's amazing about it? Poli. Yeah, it's The game is changing, there's no doubt about that. But the principles of the game still remain. Like running the ball, it's always going to be in vogue. Cliff Kingsbury is two and oh at MetLife Stadium. Of course,

the Giants last year, the Jets this year. What's the one constant in that game. I said to Darren Urban and Kyle Odegarde, the two fine writers for Easy Cardinals dot Com. Well if, I said, the only question is who's writing the game rap and who's writing the feature story on Chase Edmonds, Because every time the Cardinals go into New York, Chase Edmonds ends up being the star. He is our guest tonight on the Big Red Rage.

Just getting rolling for his by Santan Ford in Gilbert trips left shotguns that Murray quick throw to the left side and it's caught at the goal line and into the end zone for a touchdowns DeAndre Hopkins. The Cardinals went for on fourth and twelve at the Rambourne. They got it. Now they get into the end zone and man are they back in the game. With four minutes to go in the third DeAndre Hopkins, who lined up as the number three receiver. PULLI did is run the out.

The ball was thrown on time touchdown. I kept a fifteen play seventy five yard drive took over six minutes. The moment he saw the touchdown, Cliff Kingsbury turned and then went and fired up his defense as the Cardinals had closed within seventeen fourteen. They would also close to twenty four to twenty one, but at that point in the game, the time possession was thirty five to fifteen basically, and the defense just gassed in that second half. Cardinals

fall thirty eight twenty eight. Paul kelvc ron Wolf Lee Big Red Rage presented by santan Ford and Gilbert We are santan Ford Chase Edmonds straight ahead, our very special guest DeAndre Hopkins. By the way, Wolf News of the day d hop DNP did not practice for the second straight day yesterday, not injury related, though today it was listed as his next slash back, so we're obviously all hoping he's going to be good to go on Sunday

against the Giants. Yeah, Typically he has that day where he takes off on Wednesday and then he comes back and he practices on Thursday. That is not the case here. I'm not too concerned about it, Paul, because when that guy goes out onto the field, he seems to be ready to play weekend and week out. Whether he gets

the opportunity to make plays, that's something altogether different. But for the most part, he balls out on Sunday already over a thousand yards receiving through twelve games eighty five catches. We know earlier this year he became the fastest receiver in NFL history to seven hundred catches. And whose record did he Larry Fitzgerald. Fitz spoke to the media today, Wolf,

do you catch any of that fits talking about? Yeah, the aftermath coming off the COVID, the positive test Thanksgiving morning, said the worst of it was at Saturday, Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend, lost nine pounds. Said He's doing well now, but he's still for the most part, can't taste or smell, so very real for Larry Fitzgerald. Yeah, absolutely, Polly, and hopefully Larry Fitzgerald, somehow, some way, maybe he can get

back out onto the field. I don't know how that is going to happen, especially after you've lost nine pounds, Polly. I mean, now, I'm sure a lot of it is waterway. But at the same time, man, you're weak typically when you lose that much weight and then you try to come back. I don't know where his strength is going to be. You know, later though, he said he feels great. Yeah, so it sounds like he's tracking a play. I'd be surprised if he doesn't. Now, look it was it was

an extremely you know, real experience. And he said today that he actually got his estate planning and his will all done again, got a revise to update his estate and his will. Think about that and so okay, yeah, Larry has a you know. And then he also shared how he got two to four hundred text messages per day. That is what I that's what I laughed at, Paul. And you know me, I could not even I could not even survive in a situation like that. Honestly, I

would take the phone and just chuck it. I Paul, Can you imagine that three hundred text messages a day and responding to those. I mean, that is Larry's got a lot of friends. Bowl. All right, We'll get into Larry a little bit later and maybe how he factors into this offense, what he's gonna do for this offense, because look, it's a different offense. The last few games

of Act. Here's Kyler Murray his diagnosis. I wanted. The Cardinals have lost four out of five, you know, little mistakes here and there, turnovers, whether you know, piloty stuff like that, not playing complimentary football. I guess you'd beat. It's kind of just who you are. I know, it's not finding a way. How much of it is the Cardinals? How much of it in your opinion, Wolf, Is it a matter of the defense making an adjustment? Yeah, I do, Paul, I believe it's all of it. It really is. It's

all of this right now. I'd say, look at the Rams game in particular, and look at that first half. Remember the futility of the offense in that first half, Paully, and how that looked and how bad that was, four straight three and ounce. I mean, we haven't seen that all year long. And to see that happen in that game. Now, I listen, the Rams, as we know, are a good defense, there's no doubt about that. But to see the kind of futility that we saw on that first half and

then in the second half. When you talk about complimentary football, please don't get me started on the tactical level. I never want to hear a player talk about we need to play complimentary football right now on the field. Okay, I'm not talking about strategically. I'm not talking about a game that happened or a game that will happen where you're saying we didn't play complimentary football on the strategic level.

I'm talking about being on the field and putting your mouth guard in, Pouli and going out to ball out and saying, oh, now we got to play complimentary football. It should be complimentary football every play. Does that make sense, Paul? You was a player, need to go out and ball out on every play. Now when you're talking about the game after and you're talking about the game that might be coming up, yeah, go ahead, throw out the complimentary football.

Because all you needed to do was look at the second half of this game to see what they're talking about in terms of complimentary football. All of a sudden, the offense picked it up and then the defense was non existent. And look that happened twice, Paul, Yes, twice. They made it seventeen fourteen, a Rams lead, seventeen fourteen, and all of a sudden, the defense went out into the field and the Rams went what seventy five yards

for a touchdown? Suddenly it was twenty four fourteen. So what happened, Well, though they came out offensively, they ran five plays, couldn't pick up or picked up a first down, but could not move the ball anymore, punting the ball, Paul down the field goal with special teams, you're a bam. Ball comes out Charles Washington. What a great job he did stripping that ball. Ball comes out, recover the ball,

and now all of a sudden you score again. The offense scores, and now it's twenty four, twenty one, and what happens. Defense allows him to go seventy six yards and that was the ball game ball. Think about it. In that first half, to your point, first downs were nineteen to four. It was beyond lopside. But then in the second half the Cardinals scored three touchdowns. Do you want many touchdowns the Rams defense that allowed into the second half of all season long, just two? So you

see it. We saw it. Over the first nine games the Cardinals average four hundred plus yards per game, but the last three games three fourteen, two ninety eight just two hundred and thirty two total yards. Brutal. So, as Cliff Kingsbury said on Monday, just start this week quote, We've got to figure out some things this week. What if they deduced to diagnose, perhaps people will get a

little sense of that. Chase Edmond's next on the Big Red Rage brought to you by Santan Ford in Gilbert Chase Edmonds in the backbo with Murray third down in one of the twenty nine four receivers set shotgun snap, it's a run play right side, big whole. Edmunds twenty five twenty ten five touchdown the inside zone being run and Chase Edmonds found the hole in two the Hall's Baby twenty nine yard touchdown run on third down, and one for Chase Edmonds. All four of Chase Edmond's touchdowns

at Medlife twenty yards are longer. We don't even have time for all those right now. It's only an hour show. We got to split them up. We'll hear the other three off a little bit later. Okay. That was earlier this season, Week five, the thirty to ten win at the Jets, and that was the game where the Cardinals hadn't gone both in the air and on the ground. You think of that game and like Kyler's numbers, for example,

at three hundred eighty yards passing. I remember Chase Edmonds after the game called it a quote, sneaky three eighty by Kyler Murray through the air. As now they're getting ready to go back to New York this time against the Giants, and we all know what he did last year against the Giants in New York. The Fordham guy who played his college ball just a little while away over in the Bronx. Chase Edmonds is our special guest on the Big Red Rage Chase. How are we doing tonight?

I'm gonna fall ron appreciate you guys having me, no absolutely, Chase. How's the body, man? How you holding up so far? Oh man, I'm blessed and healthy right now, which is always a good thing. So you know, hopefully got a month of football left to go and hopefully can keep it. Didn't say that way. How about your mental health? How you been coping everything that the pandemic has brought, all the protocols, I mean, all the audibles you guys have had to call on and off the field. How you

been coping with all that? Right? Man? It's it's a wild time, you know what we're living in right now. But I'm just trying to just live in the moment, man, Just take advantage of every opportunity that I can get, and they're obviously certainly unique opportunities, but again, just taking a dad of time, man, and find a way to get through there's so much of the time. Of course, everyone looks at a football player and they see the

football player, but they forget about the person. They forget about the personal So, having said that is your personal life and your family, Okay, are they healthy through this pandemic? Chase, Yes, sir Ron free as you're asking, Oh yeah, I've had all family limners so far. Be healthy, man, which is always a good thing. And I mean I've had actually had a first cousin who called COVID, so I kind of, you know, heard of heard of where you know, he had the bag COVID where he kind of affected him

pretty badly for about three weeks. And so I've heard that side of the story too. Manages prayers for everybody in their family and their loved ones right now. You know. So when you're going back to New York and knowing what you've done in that stadium, is it a bit different vibe this week? Can you feel it is the buzz building for you? I mean on the personal level, I just try to, you know, continue to build on

a good momentum. And you know, my last two games at New York and Met Left have been a good game, So hopefully I can just continue to build on a man, I'm not trying to make it anything. It's not, you know, it's make something out. We're just really trying to focus on around now winning a football game. So when I say to you, Chase, you're three in the National Football League, how's it going, buddy, I'm sorry, sit over the time. Run when when I say you're three in the National

Football League, how's it going? How's it going for you? On a personal leve it? Man, I'm playing really good football, I feel like right now, and I'm doing everything the coaches are asking me to do, trying to just continue to find a way to expand my role. I think what I want to find a way to do is just um trying to make you know, like a big ex supposed to play a game. You know. I feel like that's really my role is where right now, I'm kind of like the spark plug and the little gadget user,

whatever you want to call it. Right now, I just try to focus on ways to help this football team and whether it's in the receiving game, Russian game, return game, and just find a way, man again, to contribute to a win. You know, we're in the last month of the football season, playoff race, where every game is his playoff mentality, surviving advance. And then obviously the last month of football is the clus hasn't gone the way we've running our hope to go. But the good thing is that,

you know, we still can control our own destiny. So don't way we can do that though, just taking a week out of time, man, data time fact. At the time, it's all about you, Chase Edmonds presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert. Every time Cliff Kingsbury has asked about you, we always paused to say, you know what, we gotta get them more touches. If that's the case, You're ready, aren't you. I mean, you're ready for that sort of workload,

aren't you? Yeah? Man, you know, I mean I have goals and aspirations and I just feel like, um, right now I'm playing really good football. Hopefully I can finally to touch the ball. But again we have a lot of playmakers, man, and a lot of guys in the team that touch the ball, so I don't take it with anything. I'm just trying to win and right now that's that's everyone's number one goal is to win. You know, you got together the boys and just however we play

our best football. We need to get back to that. And if it has certain individuals have to sacrifice certain roles or you know, less plays. We're not We're not for that now. We're all about the team and we're all about stacking w's. You know, Chase, Obviously, over the last three games, you guys have struggled offensively. There's no doubt about that. You were the number one offense in the National Football League and now you're number six. So the fall has been a little precipitous here over the

last three weeks. Has the NFL caught on to this offense? And what can you do to change it? Um? I don't want to say the NFL has called on I mean, or if you're looking from an that viewpoint, you can, but that's really wrong. You know what people don't understand is that's what's so unique about the NFL. UM. You know, you guys and coaches are just two smart players are

too good. You know, guys are two ambitions. Watch the film you kind of see what happened with Baltimore last year, how the offense was so dominant and they they're not as a fishing aft day were to hope for this year right now. You know in the animal obviously you get more film out there, you find was to stop it.

I think one thing that we just have to do is collectively as offensive unit, is find out, okay, what if team's done for us and where it slowed it down and we haven't had the game where it's up to our standard, and just find unique ways to obviously overcome that. Man, And we're working on that day by day and just trying to get at it brick by brick. But again it starts on Sunday. Man, it really starts

to just Monday through Saturday of in our preparation. Kyler Murray after the game, asked about the one in four stretch here after the five and two start. Here's Kyler. I think we kind of hit a wall offensively. At first half of the season. We were it was kind of effortless were you know, we're moving the ball, having fun, playing fast and stuff like that. And now we just kind of when you face a little bit of adversity, how we react, how we adjust, which we ended up doing,

but it was just a little too late. We've been in those games, and I think it's just we just got to find a way to execute, you know, when we have to. We haven't done that. I'm not gonna ask you what you're gonna do. I'm not asking you to give away of the gameplay. What if defense is done though, how if defense is adjusted, especially in the

past month or so. Yeah, So right now, I think with defenses, the number one goal coming in when they play US, I think right now is just to stop the run and really take take kay One's legs out of it, because you know, you see it when Kay one's getting going with his Russian yards in a little bit, he's really a Russian threat. I mean, it just adds a whole another element to our offense for one. That's

that's really what I think. So, I mean, again, kudos to those defenses like LA did a good job of it. New England certainly did a good jobs just really trying to neutralize college legs. So we got to find a way men to keep them involved, keep him upright too. I think teams that really generate some decent pressure on him and try to get them uncomfortable. They've kind of found a certain success that goes with every offense, you get pressure on the quarterback, you know it's gonna go

that way. So again, we gotta fire with his men to keep them rhythm, keep them comfortable, and just keep the drives move. And I think we're executing third down conversions. It gives us an ability to really just get with our tempo and kind of apply pressure defenses. You know, that's what I think you need to do as well. Jays. You need to run the ball so much better, and I think you need to run it better. This is just my opinion in a North Sol fashion. Right when

you're watching tape, are you guys executing? Is the offensive line executing? Our running backs missing reads? What's happening with you guys in terms of this rushing attack? Really, man based off of the last couple of weeks, we're kind of just we're not in sync. So we might have one play where we have nine guys execute to play and then two guys kind of just moved mass up

or something like that. And if that's kind of been the consistent basis on what's been going on, where it's just not all eleven guys executing at all one time, and that's really what makes successful plays um. Obviously, football is a game of individual matchup, So we got to find a way where we're all holding ourselves to kind of a man, find a way to do your job, worry about your individual's assignment, and it all collectively coming together,

we can get back and making this name Joel. Well, look, we've seen it. We've seen what this offense looks like when it's clicking. And the thing is even Wolf, even when they were number one in the NFL total offense, they still haven't played that game. Yeah you said it was a complete game. Yep, that was really a breakout game. We're still waiting for that. And Cliff Kingsbury is pretty forth right to start the week. You know, we got

to figure some things out. I know, I'm curious Wolf to see what it looks like when the Cardinals break the huddle for the first time in New York. There might be a few changes out there, I would imagine. I really do believe, Bully, it is all built and predicated around them running the ball. And I'm not talking about having to have Kyler Murray run the ball as well. Is that a good thing, There's don't doubt about it. Pulling the ball down in a scramble and running the ball,

even having cold runs. I've got no problem with that. But when you're banking on it to make your offense go, that's when I'm worried a little bit about it, because now you're Michael there. If you want third down conversions, you want Larry. That's next on the big red Rage SIPs it over the middle, caught by Larry Fitzgerald. It's

another first down. Was able to power through some arm tackles out to the twenty three, but owing left and Fits with the catch inside the twenty if the eighteen stuffed the ball out as he was getting hit, and he was able to get the first down. Caught over the middle by Fits at the forty yard line and dumped there growing right. It's caught by Fits at the twenty five. Got the first down of the twenty fires over the middle of the Fits, caught it at twenty

and down to the fifteen yard line. That was a bullet out comes the ball and that was a full blown dark caught by Larry Fitzgerald for a first down, perfect throw and the right guy to throw it too. That montage right there, guys, is from two twenty our Jim Amandra went through this year. Think of how many first downs you hear there from the first ballot Hall of Famer. Yah. Think about when he went out two

games ago. He was number two in catches for the Cardinals, number three in receiving yards, but a lot of those were critical conversions. Well, you know, he went out and it was just different. Last time he had missed a game two fourteen. He missed two games the last time for that two thousand and seven. Larry in a seventeen season back in the practice field this week, Paul klvc Ron Wolfley and running back Chase Edmonds here on the Big Red Rage, and Chase simply put, how good was

it to have number eleven back out there this week? Oh? Man, that's big broth for me. So it's obviously always good to have Larry out there and just have his leadership and really just his presence. Man gods s feet off, you know, And it's such a good a game for the younger guys on again, always how to handle yourself. So it's been good to working back in there. Chase, do you have a story personally, a story of you and Larry and how Larry has impacted your career. Is

there any advice that he's given you? Can you give us a story? Can you share one? That's funny you say that because I was telling Larry about it, just because no again and him. Me and him have got so much, so close over my years being here, and I remember telling him just how he obviously understands his impact on people. But I remember my story for really, my Larry interaction is just my rookie year. This is

when Dave had first started his hold out. If you guys remember kind of did he didn't report you ots or whatever it was for like you know, I feel like it was like a week, maybe two weeks or something like that. So I was getting all the first team reps, and um, I was doing a pretty decent job, man, you know I was. I was a rookie at that time, so I was just you know, staying quiet, just trying to figure out what I can do to help the team and just do my job as best as I could.

And um, I remember, man, just Larry giving me a noogie, just just a random look. And I haven't said ten words to him yet, and uh, but I told him this is about a week ago. What I told him just like he didn't understand what that did for me as as a player. Confidence and just okay, Larry fitz Jail acknowledged me, you know, right, that goes along the way. Man. It made me feel like, Okay, I'm doing something right. I remember the first thing I did was I got home and told my mom that he gave me a

damn nuggie. But uh so that went a long way for me, man. And when you have guys like that, that certain guys look up to on the team, it goes a long ways for a young Clayre's confidence and just really you know, they're beliefing himself and they can

and playing and be an impact for that. That totally resonates with me, man, it really does, because honestly, with that noogie, what that meant for Larry too, is this kid's gonna be here being that guy when I was in college and I was the man he right, you know, yeah, so I remember that. That's very cool, man, Thank you for that, dude. It's amazing how wolf street cred went up a few years ago when when Larry tackled him during the Red White scrimmage out of I can't believe

Jase what that did for Wolf's career behind the mic. Okay, so no, Jase, don't comment on that all right. How about just the impact of Larry on on the offense right now, not not you personally, but on the office I think is crucial. I think, uh well, I think what Larry does the best out of anybody on the team. Really. I've scene is that Larry takes h little routes man, and he finds way to getting north south so fast.

You know, you can Larry off a four yard route and he's gonna get you, you know, final way to get you that eight to ten yards and get you a down. I think we got to final with a capitalize then, just and get him going early. You know, when he has touches in God's treat off he wants fit to get that first down for us. He comes up, he does that Fitch Park or whatever he's doing, and that stays for stuff. Man. So I just you know, I love to see him. We gotta get him an

en zone too. I told we got to get big brown end zone. That's a good point. We call it Byoe. Bring your own energy, especially when you're on the road and these stadiums are empty and you know, in that Jets game and it's totally empty, you could hear sound echo all over MetLife Stadium, eighty thousand seats empty. It's a totally different dynamics. So you have Larry as a first ballot Hall of Fame receiver, you have Larry as

a team leader, and then Larry as offensive consultant. Because listen to what Fitz said today as he watched those games from his couch. When you're playing in the game, you're you're really concerned about what your job is and what you need to be doing and how you can be effective to help your team. And when you're actually taking a you know, a step back, a bird's eye view,

and I mean, you see a lot more. And you know, I've discussed those things with my coaches in my teammates, you know, back that's not something I want to discuss publicly, but you know, you do see things that you normally wouldn't see when you're playing. Actually, it was pretty helpful to be able to deserve it from a distance. Interesting what he might have shared with Cliff Kingsbury. I mean, Jase, if you're trying to diagnose the offense and what's going on,

right now maybe it's a team. Is it simple? Is it complex? I mean, how big an issue or our correction? Is this all told? Man, I'm gonna say it's simple. I'm not gonna sit here and that we have a super complex problem right now. I mean we're just not executing and we're just not on the same page. And I don't think it's a complex because we certainly have the talent, you know, and we just set ourselves a

high stand. I mean, we're the number one offense in the NFL at one point for a reason, so obviously we have the talent and the guys that and then the coaches have to make it happen. It's just about again going on and making it happen. So guys got to find a way to do the job better, myself included. And guys you got to look at themselves in the mirror and again, like Larry said, to take a bird's eye view almost at some point and just really say, Okay, what can I do to get better? And what can

we do as an offense to get better? Chase, you know, this is so important right now. But confidence is the currency of competition. I mean, it's what you use to buy and sell in competition. It's confidence, right, and I look at this team right now, and there you were at five and two and now you're six and six. I can't imagine that breeds a lot of confidence. Chase right, right, and Ron, you're completely right. Obviously everyone knows, even though I know as a fan of just a football man,

the best teams are the highest teams. That's how I look at always. The best teams are always the hottest teams. If you got that confidence, like you said, it goes a long ways. Obviously we're kind of cool right now. But again, well, I think with the messages of this team is despite how bad our last month of football has been, we still can control our own destity. And it starts with this when I need to reside. So we're kind of just trying to clean slate it all rigary.

We're basically in December of football, the most important month of football, and let's find a way to just again stack one win at a time. Would you say the team's angry? That's a clock Kingsbury told us yesterday if there was one vibe he got out of practice, the team was angry. Yeah, definitely angry. We're not playing to

the standard that we would hold to play. We know how good we can be with with some of the wins on our on our board right now, so you know, and I feel like we need to have more urgency as the team too, just where you know it. We're

fighting for our lives right now. Every single game now it basically left for death in terms of okay, we're playing for something or were just going on iron playing for pride, and uh, my first two seasons have been playing for pride, and I'm tired of having that feeling. So I want to be playing for something meaningful. Well, well, we know what Chase Edmonds did the last time he went into MetLife Stadium against the New York Giants. It

was NFL history in a lot of ways. We'll revisit that and we'll talk about this revamped Giants defense, this revamped Giants team when we come back. It is the Big Red Rage presented by santan Ford and Gilbert. We are santan Ford hands off Edmonds off the left side. He's got a crease up the fifteen to ten to five touchdown hits to drop play. Edmonds grade ahead twenty fifteen, breaks a tackle at the ten head of the end zone for a second touchdown. He handed off to the

lapside Edmonds. He's got a rumber the twenty to ten to five peas in again the hat track. Third touchdown run. The first two went for twenty of peace. This one goes for twenty two yards. Actor Peterson had a towel and he was waving the towel at Chase Edmonds as

if to put out a fire. I've ember calling it a three alarm fire because of the three touchdowns one hundred twenty six yards rushing twenty on twenty seven carries, Chase Edmonds a six NFL player in the history of the game with at least three rushing touchdowns of twenty or more yards twenty twenty and twenty two yards. Wolf you and pass on the call a year ago at

MetLife Stadium, Cardinal's going back against the Giants. Chase Edmonds, every special guests here on the Big Red Race presented by santan Ford and Gilbert And if memory serves Chase, every one of those was between the tackles and then boom, you found a whole of seam and you were gone.

Yeah it was. It was a great job by the line obviously those were good memories and good times and hopefully we can find a way to make those same memories happen this on they So when you watch tape on the New York Giants and on this defense, what do you see, Chase oh Man, tough, tough defense. Uh, really good upfront obviously big they got some big boys. They have a really good linebacker that I like he's playing.

He's playing his ass off, Blake Martinez. Yes, and then got a secondary and one got that sticks out of there as the Boro Preppers obviously, and um really man, I like this has a fan of football. I like what the Giants have done with the hire of Joe Judge. Joe Judge brought you know, physical mentality, tough football team type of thing and everybody you know. And obviously his team reflects it just in terms of even with their special teams. But they're not more of a finesse team.

They definitely more of a get down in your face and really want to beat you down, you know, and they're obviously building on something good. You know. Russell Wilson got sacked five times, he got hit ten times, and from all accounts, in that game, he was a little hesitant, especially for Russell Wilson. He wasn't all that decisive. Do they dial up a lot of different stuff, especially in

the secondary um. Actually it's surprisingly that they don't, you know, the relatively more more on the simple side for NFL defense, they kind of stick to what they do and they just work on, you know, doing it really well. They just got a really they did a really good job and again just being out out physical and the team and they just did a good job of getting after Russell Wilson, which is very hard to do. But uh, you know, kudos to them, did a really good job.

I think they held him to what like it was a twelve point yeah maybe, yeah, seventeen twelve, yes, twelve okay, yeah. I mean anytime you hold a Russell Wilson led office to twelve man, you definitely hell of a job. So when I think of Patrick Graham, I think of man cover. I think of closed the middle of the field with the safety, and I think of messing around on third and obvious pass situations where you're playing that blitz bail

with six and then you're dropping off. As a matter of fact, I saw them put two spies on Russell Wilson, not one, but two. What are you seeing though, specifically when you watch tape with Patrick Graham and the Giants, man, Um, what I see is uh, discipline. You know, it's a discipline football team. You know, you're not really gonna have too many instances where guys out of the gap were just you know, blown coverages and on and when it's often and done. That's kind of what makes the defense

really good. If you have guys that are just in position, in the right position, man, you can make a lot of plays, and you really can limit a lot of explosive plays. You know. For those who don't know, Chase Edmonds started Fordham, played his college games in the Bronx multiple time All American. To what degree did you watch you would play on Saturday, then would you watch the Giants and or Jets on a Sunday? One of my college you made he was he was a diehard Jets

fans anytime the Jets one. We were watching that sadly at that time, but uh, you know, man, it was it was a good time. So I'm very familiar with the Giants and in the Jets playing. Those TV's are always go on, So I'm just I'm just trying. Well, if I'm just trying, I'm wondering, you know, for you do you get a little different vibe when you go back into the city, into the Big Apple and to play in that stadium. You know the numbers say wow, look out. Yeah I'm not I get a little different buzz.

But I don't even think it's from the previous games. Man, It's just uh it like you know, I love New York City, man, and that that college part of me. It'll be especially part of my life. You know. Always as I as I go on my biddies and when I go back to that, man, I always know that I got a lot of more eyes looking at me just because so many family and friends got down that way.

So uh, that's what it did for me. It's a little different bit of a buzz, but you know, I try to not to again make too much out of it. You know what, Chase, I see you very very similar to a Marcus Golden. I see you as a guy that approaches every plane, no matter what the game, no matter what the score, no matter what the quarter, every play you approach the same. Is that. I mean, that's the way you play. That's I mean to me, I've got so much respect for that, Chase. Is that a mindset?

Is that something that you do purposely or is it something you've got to generate? Man, It's just that's just how I was raised. Man. You know, he played every single clay like it's your last. And I want to be a pros pro. I really want to be that guy down a road. Man, I'm ten years in and guys can kind of just saying, look at he's done it right on the must a few, you know, kind of take after that guy and you'll be successful one of those type of guys. You know, there's not everyone's

built like that, Chase. I mean you know that, right, You know that that is a special quality that you have. These are some of the finest athletes in the world. There's some of the best football players in the world. But not everybody's built like that. Hey, Wolf, here's an example. Are Jima Monro Before the show we are talking Chase, he remembers your quote your rookie year when you quoted

Abraham Lincoln. Now putting you on the spot. Do you remember the Abraham Lincoln quote about being prepared and it had to do with chopping down a tree. Do you remember that? Oh, shout out to Joe moorehead because he said that quote by every team meeting in my college. God. Um, I think it was if you gave me six hours a chop of tree. That's been the first five sharper than the acts. Yes, I'm gonna know that quote for the rest of my life. Here here's what else people

might not know about Chase. Oh, he is a big NBA fan, big time NBA fan. You know Tony Jefferson thinks former Cardinal safety jeff thinks he's like a big Suns fan, But you know, Chase snows his NBA. What do you think of Chris Paul and the moves they made in the off season. I like the moves, man, I really do. I felt like I felt like the Sun needed to make the move to really secure the book. You know, when you have a young superstar going up like that, especially in the NBA, you know we're gonna

call spadus. Those guys can kind of dictate where they want to play at any given time. So I think they did a good job just getting an all star guy in CP three. Really, when he first got to Okay, see, everybody thought Okay, he was the worst record in the NBA and you have CP CP three. I think they were a sixth seed or something like that. He worked his ways, man, So he's definitely gonna the young guys that Phoenix definitely gonna benefit from him. And uh, I'm

looking forward to just Washington plays. You know, hopefully we'll get in the playoffs. How much basketball did you play, Jason many? Could you point it up? Is that? I mean? Are you a point guard? Yeh? I played basketball whole life, but the game. I'm just a huge sports fan, but especially with basketball. I don't know why, just like but obviously I feel like it's kind of like all basketball players wanna be football players, and all football players and

players do you know how that goes? So I wished all the six five is to go dunker damn ball every time I want it. But uh, I liked the sport a lot. Chase. Remember if you need courtside seats, you have a son's minority honor in your locker room. Yeah, yes, yes, you have to know that. Hey, you know what, Chase, Honestly, I've wanted to ask you this for a long time, but do you talk to your teammates about the other

team's offense. Like, do you walk around and talk to some of your defensive players in the locker room about the other team's offense and get I don't know a scouting report on them? Do you ever do that? Yeah, I'm always talking. I'm always picking mind man, I'm trying

to become a more intelligent, better football player. One of the defensive guys I'm constantly talking to about other opposing offenses, Buddha Baker, just because Boot is always in the film room, I'm trying to be always in the film room and just talk ball man. Understand how a defense thinks, Understand how offense takes It makes both guys better. You strike me as being a coach when it's all sudden done. Does that appeal to you? I'm I'm very it now.

I always wanted to be a coach, and then I think as I got into the NFL more man, I see you know the two because I see the hours that coaches put in. Yeah, and for me personally, I think coaches, you know, they don't get enough glory. You know, coaches the first one to get fired and the time goes bad. I mean they put in a lot of hours. Man, I'm leaning more towards GM. I want to go for office. I haven't really decided, yea, I think you know, I gotta do to grow up and you'll get more experience

to really decide what I want to be. But definitely coaching her or GM. Dude. I love talking to you, man. Thank you so much, Chase for your time tonight. App Hey, I'll tell you what We're better off for having you. We're more intelligent for having you here tonight in the Big Red Rage, there's no doubt Adrian Wilson, move over, You're gonna have company a former Cardinals player in the

front office. Back to wrap up this addition to the Big Red Rage, third and gold to two, Warner parks up the call, Fitzgerald in motion to the new year's side play fake Warner rolling right, throws right, Fitzgerald touchdown, tenth ketch already for Larry Fitzgerald today and the first offensive touchdown for the Cardinals this year. There within two of New York with seven o four to play in the third day. Pash love Zach Cliff because he sounds

like he's seventeen years old. He basically was seventeen years old in that cliff because that goes back to two thousand five. That is the very first Kurt Warner to Larry Fitzgerald touchdown connection. Think about that, well, the first of forty nine Kurt to Larry touchdown connections, including the postseason. So how about that. It's big time, Polly, no doubt about it. And that was at the Giants two thousand

and five. Now we know back in the day you used to go in and take on the Giants every single year, back when they are in the same division. And you know, it's interesting as a guy Wolf who went to four Pro Bowls as a special teams ace, you know, they've struggled. They had a punt blocked, Seattle got a safety out of it. Cincinnati a little while ago had a kickoff return of one hundred three yards and a big time punt return. And it'd be great to get a couple of plays on special teams to

just spark this team overall. And it's so interesting, Bully, because you know the special teams of course, made a play last week, Charles Washington boat ball out, you know, get on that thing, and the offense scored a couple of plays later. You know, it's what special teams does. It trolls field position and of course momentum. It brings momentum to a football game, both positive and negative. In Paul, this is a big game, buddy. I mean, I know you know that. You don't need to be told that

this is a huge game. In fact, Patrick Peterson was talking about just that. We always say that the next game is big, but it's is huge for us because you know, now we own a what a three game losing street and we got to find a hood to get out of that phone and the like I said, we got four games left for us to lay it all on the line. You know, this is going to really show how important the game is to the guys

on his team. Think about it, the old saying winning solves everything, And if the Cardinals win, it's real easy. They're back into the playoff picture. They're back in the wildcard because Tampa and Minnesota play each other. The question becomes wolf when you say that the defensive coordinator in New York is a Belichick disciple. Yeah, I mean I get a little worried because those guys have had success

against this Cardinals offense this year. Yeah, you should get a little bit worried, right there is You're right, they have had success against his Cardinals offense. And again, Patrick Graham, defensive coordinator for the Giants, he's going to be a head coach at some point in time, Paully. This is a guy that was under Bill Belichick for seven years in four different capacities, whether it was as a defensive line coach, secondary coach, right a defensive assistant, whatever it was.

This guy knows Bill Belichick. He knows everything about him, this system of course that he uses. And then he also worked with Matt Patricia and he also worked with Brian Flores. Can you imagine the conversations these men have probably had about this offense, Paul, and the Giants have won four in a row. They're balling and it's and you hear what Chase said, he said, he repeatedly, they're an ultra physical task, Baul. So to pat P's final point there, you're going to find out how bad the

guys want it. You're right you will. Because this Giants team competes seven straight games, they've rushed for more than a hundred yards. They just put one hundred and ninety yep rushing yards on there. It is, Polly right there. I mean, we don't want to make Seattle's defense out to be the greatest thing in the National Football League. It is not. We know just how bad they really are, but it doesn't account for the other six games the Giants have played and the way that they are running

the ball right now. They are a physical team, There's no doubt about it. They have a really good defense. They have their starting quarterback. I think Daniel Jones is gonna play. I mean, Paul, I think he's gonna play, is gonna be ready to go. And right now, let's face it, the momentum for the Giants is headed up. For the Cardinals right now, it's been trending in the other direction. Losing four or five. Their quarterback has taken heat.

Larry Fitzgerald is a question mark. I mean, honestly, Paully, these two teams are going to be fighting for their playoff lives on Sunday. You know, Daniel Jones, before he went out, he had played three straight games without a turnover. Yes, that's miraculous for the young man turnin season and a half in the league. Fully, that is well said by

you right there. It's a big deal. When you go back and you look over the last three games, man, he got it go now only fully threw one touchdown, but he threw no picks over those three games and through for over seven hundred yards. As a matter of fact, really started to clean his game up before he got hurt. It's amazing. Don't turn the ball over. Having defense that's number three in takeaways with twenty, and then your defense

has only allowed six offensive touchdowns during this four game win. Stream. Yeah, it's your old saying. You go on the road, you take your special teams in your defense. Yep, you try and bring an attitude. Hopefully, if indeed the Cardinals truly are angry, as coach Kingsbury let us know, then boom, yeah you'll get one of those old NFC East type games Cardinals and Giant Special Thanks Cody Fincher, Jim Almohundro,

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